Thoughts in Random Patterns

Benefit for Boulder Shelter for the Homeless

If you're looking for something fun to do this Saturday night, head on over to the Dairy Center for the Arts for an evening of comedy to benefit the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless!

Bollocks, this is Boulder!

Laugh till the cows come home! A hilarious night of improv comedy! A benefit for the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011 Time: 7:30pm Price: $27.00 - General Admission all proceeds benefit the homeless shelter Location: Tickets and show at www.TheDairy.org. Join us for a night of high jinks and belly laughs to raise funds for the many programs at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless.  www.BovineMetropolis.com is coming all the way to Boulder so you don't have to go all the way to Denver. A rare treat and all ages are welcome. This is going to sell out so stop chewing your cud and join the fun. Moo! Buy your tickets now right HERE! Presented by:

Birthday Scarf

While I had a lovely birthday celebration of my 45th birthday last week, it was also my older sister's birthday on Monday 9/12.  We had a terrific sister day, with breakfast, facials, and lots of fun shopping together.

And I gave her a knitted gift that I really truly intended to finish in time for her birthday LAST year, but just didn't get it done.

I made a black mohair scarf blended with shiny neon accent colors, which is just right for her.  And it's finally finished!

 I used a single row reversible scarf pattern (and another blog post about it) from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee a.k.a. Yarn Harlot who is surely one of my favorite knitting bloggers.

 Progession in photographs: 

First photographed on August 10, 2010 - getting under way: 

 

 Photographed on August 28, 2010 - about halfway done - two weeks of knitting time left before the birthday deadline: 

 

and again on September 3rd in the sunshine at our Keystone house:

 

This yarn is hard to photograph because of the shiny neon accent yard mixed with the fuzzy black mohair: 

 
 

 

And a year later - finally finished! 

 

 

 The day between my sister's birthday and mine was a stormy rainy day, ending with this beautiful double rainbow over Eldorado Canyon that really looks like it ends in my yard: 

Bismarck

Marathon #18 in Brad's quest to run one in each of the 50 states is completed.  We spent two nights in Bismarck, North Dakota and I can cross another state off of my list.

Brad blogs about his race here.  I really liked following him on Run Keeper Live to see where he was at all points during the marathon.  

It's race day!  Light rain, cloudy, gloomy: 

   

Brad's usual pre-marathon preparation - last minute emails:

Before:

During:

 

Crossing the finish line: 

  

After - feeling pretty good: 

Back in our hotel room - with finisher's medal:

 

 Next up, Newport, Rhode Island on October 15th and St. Louis, Missouri the following Sunday October 23rd. 

Back in Boulder

I've had a glorious summer in Paris and Tuscany, but eventually it's time to come home.  

I missed the dogs, 

 

and our house (photographed by friends hiking across the canyon) 

and Colorado peaches for breakfast, sitting outside watching hummingbirds in the flowers - 

It's good to be home - 

Here is a link to an entertaining interview of Brad by David Cohen of TechStars, where you can see the swimming pool and villa and the general beauty of the place.  

Our penultimate night in Tuscany we went to our new friends' house for pizza made in their very own brick oven.  Yum.  Here we document Brad's limited footwear options after two months away: 

 

 

The lemon cake we had for dessert - 

This photo is of a dessert that Jeff made for a previous dinner while Brad's parents were visiting Tuscany, which is part of the explanation why my scale says exactly what it said two months ago.  Sad but true. 

 Some photos of flowers in my very own yard -  

 

Time to get to work -